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According to the filings, the aircraft will deliver between 2021 and 2022 with two due in the third and fourth quarters of 2021 respectively while the other two are due during the first and second quarters of 2022 respectively. The jets will be equipped with Rolls-Royce Trent 7000-72 engines.

Garuda also has purchase contracts for fourteen A330-900s deliveries which are due to run from 2019 up to 2022.

According to CAPA, two A330-900s that are destined for Garuda Indonesia Group's low-cost subsidiary, Citilink (QG, Surabaya), are those which were originally due to be placed with defunct Icelandic LCC WOW air (WW, Reykjavik Keflavik) - msn 1870 and 1887 - but never taken up. The two widebody jets will arrive with the LCC in November and December this year ahead of its debut of longhaul flights to Frankfurt...

The Indonesian government is considering banning the import of Airbus passenger aircraft and convincing domestic carriers to order Boeing equipment instead due to the ongoing dispute about palm oil production, Bloomberg has reported.

Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita confirmed that the government is exploring options regarding potential retaliation against the EU's restrictions on the export of palm oil biodiesel. He said he had already talked with Rusdi Kirana, co-founder of Lion Air (JT, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta), to discuss the potential implications and complicity of Indonesian airlines with the Airbus ban.